# Karl Popper

> He turned science on its head by saying you can't prove a theory true - only knock it down. That one idea, falsifiability, made Karl Popper the philosopher every working scientist had to reckon with, whether they liked it or not.

*Austrian-British philosopher of science and social and política e falsificationism and for criticism of Plato, Hegel and Marx as totalitarian opponents of open society (1902-1994)*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Academic ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631))
- **Category:** Academics
- **Country:** Austria
- **Born:** 1902-07-28
- **Died:** 1994-09-17
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Born in Vienna in 1902, Popper broke with centuries of scientific orthodoxy: where others chased confirmation, he argued that real science advances by trying to destroy its own claims. A theory that can't be tested to destruction isn't science at all. He called it falsification, and it rewired how researchers think about evidence. He fled Austria, landed in Britain, and founded the philosophy department at the London School of Economics. In politics he was just as uncompromising - a relentless defender of liberal democracy and the open society, and an enemy of totalitarianism in every form. He died in 1994, having spent seventy years insisting that doubt, not certainty, is the engine of progress.

## Fame
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- **Historical depth:** 26.4 / 100
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- **Profile completeness:** 70.0 / 100

## Topics
#Academics, #Academic, #Philosophy, #Literature, #Mathematics, #20th Century

## Timeline
- **2003** - Montyon Prize
- **1994** - Died
- **1992** - Kyoto Prize in Arts and Philosophy
- **1991** - Honorary Doctor of the University of Madrid Complutense
- **1984** - Prix Alexis de Tocqueville
- **1980** - Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts order
- **1977** - Honorary Doctor of the University of Vienna
- **1973** - Sonning Prize
- **1965** - Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society Te Apārangi
- **1902** - Born

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